Young Sheldon Ending
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About
Young Sheldon Ending refers to memes and jokes about the final episode of The Big Bang Theory prequel Young Sheldon. The show had gathered a semi-ironic following in its seven seasons of run time, with the show's finale featuring the aftermath of the much-anticipated death of Sheldon's father George Cooper. Memes joking about dramatic and unexpected events in the show's finale surfaced online in May 2024, soon after the show's final episode aired on May 16th.
Origin
On May 16th, 2024, the final episode of Young Sheldon aired on CBS and Netflix. The finale comes seven years after the show's debut in 2017 and shows Sheldon Cooper grappling with his father's death and beginning his higher education at the California Institute of Technology (CalTech).[1]
Spread
Jokes about the Young Sheldon ending began to spread online soon after the show's finale aired in mid-May 2024, with many internet users joking about having strong reactions to the show's finale and making meme edits about it.
Twitter pages announcing that Young Sheldon was ending received viral quotes from people joking about Sheldon being assassinated, and about how sad they were that the show is ending. X[4][5] users @Dayscd and @mountbellyache made jokes to this effect on May 16th, 2024, gathering over 60,000 and 70,000 likes, respectively, in a day (seen below).
On May 16th, X[2] user @TheWapplehouse posted an image of Young Sheldon edited onto a dying Walter White from Breaking Bad, gathering over 190,000 likes with the caption, "Jesus that Young Sheldon ending was brutal" (seen below, left).
Also on May 16th, 2024, X[3] user @MikeBeauvais posted an edit showing Sheldon Cooper in a scene from Goodfellas, writing, "Wow, that final scene of Young Sheldon was unexpected." The post gathered over 13,000 likes in a day (seen below, right).
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[2] X – TheWapplehouse
[3] X – MikeBeauvais
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